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Favorite Pete Sampras Matchby: Sonja Stransky ( Vienna, Austria)

Some of you might remember that Semifinal against Sweden in Las Vegas 1995.
I recently watched it again and I really love it very much. Pete won his
first match, then Agassi got injured and it was Martin's turn to get the
third point and he did. So Pete's last match was a dead rubber he played
against Mats Wilander. He was smiling all the time and joking and was not
concentrating at all. He teased Wilander pointing at the spot to where he
was going to smash, made a lot of tricky shots, threw his racket high up
in the air when he missed one. He mixed a lot of double faults with aces
and genius shots and was so happy that Timmy Gullikson was there too (one
of his last public appearance) - he had also changed places with his brother
Tom for several games and was sitting close to Pete during the breaks. Pete
lost the first set 2:6 after an endless serving game and was 1:4 down in
the second (in a best of three match). He obviously thought that he would
not like to disappoint the crowd and Timmy and to all who had stayed there
to watch. He made the break to love, saved several matchpoints at 5:6, won
the tiebreaker 7:2 and the third set 6:3 - that's our Pete!! I like it so
much watching a relaxed and happy Pete finally pulling himself up against
a very motivated Wilander who played pretty great tennis that day.